On 02/20, Mina Almasry wrote: > Currently net_iovs support only pp ref counts, and do not support a > page ref equivalent. > > This is fine for the RX path as net_iovs are used exclusively with the > pp and only pp refcounting is needed there. The TX path however does not > use pp ref counts, thus, support for get_page/put_page equivalent is > needed for netmem. > > Support get_netmem/put_netmem. Check the type of the netmem before > passing it to page or net_iov specific code to obtain a page ref > equivalent. > > For dmabuf net_iovs, we obtain a ref on the underlying binding. This > ensures the entire binding doesn't disappear until all the net_iovs have > been put_netmem'ed. We do not need to track the refcount of individual > dmabuf net_iovs as we don't allocate/free them from a pool similar to > what the buddy allocator does for pages. > > This code is written to be extensible by other net_iov implementers. > get_netmem/put_netmem will check the type of the netmem and route it to > the correct helper: > > pages -> [get|put]_page() > dmabuf net_iovs -> net_devmem_[get|put]_net_iov() > new net_iovs -> new helpers > > Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx> I remember you wanted to have more fine grained refcnt, but starting with this is good enough for me.
